Fat Smash Setback

I went away for the weekend to upstate NY and had a very hard time staying on the diet. It was mostly due to the fact that I didn't want to be a party pooper. We visited Skidmore College, my alma mater, and my friends wanted to try the restaurants I used to go. And so did I, frankly! It's been years and years (well, actually, decades) since I had eaten at any of those restaurants. It was fun to do the walk down memory lane -- which just couldn't not include a pizza at Bruno's or fried chicken at Hattie's!! (Yes, I ate both those things. Oink, oink.)

The day I got back from the trip, I tripped and fell. I broke my elbow! It was such a scary and painful experience that, after the hospital, I couldn't eat at all. But when I did get hungry, I couldn't stomach another meal of veggies and lean meat. I just couldn't. I wanted something starchy and sweet. So I went a little nuts. Had a big sandwich on a roll. Then I ate roughly 6 or 8 chocolate chip cookies my neighbor baked when she heard I was injured.

I feel terribly physically. My body was getting used to eating so healthfully, it was a shock to my system to eat so badly. That said, my little break has motivated me to get back on the diet immediately, starting TODAY. I'm taking a step back and I'm doing the detox (phase 1) of Fat Smash again for a few days. I'll then move back into phase 2.

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Well, this is a good example of how something always happens when I'm dieting. If it's not one thing, it's another. Hopefully I can get back to where I was before the weekend, when my elbow was still in one piece!